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Special History Theatre: Rediscovering History
Special History Theatre: Rediscovering History
Friday, April 26, 2024
5pm – Food and Cocktails
6pm Performances begin
(Honolulu, HI) Hawaiian Mission Houses will host a special presentation of History Theatre: Rediscovering History on Friday, April 26, 2024 on the grounds of the Hawaiian Mission Houses, 553 S. King St., Honolulu, HI 96813. Tickets are $45/person and includes a bento and 1 complimentary drink. Tickets can be purchased at www.missionhouses.org. Food and drinks will be available beginning at 5pm and the performances will begin promptly at 6pm.
Hawaiian Mission Houses brings history to life with carefully researched and scripted actor portrayals of figures from Hawaiʻi's history.
History Theatre: Redisovering History will feature 4 portrayals focused on the history of libraries, archives, and museums in Hawaiʻi. Featured this year are:
Robert Crichton Wyllie (1798-1865) – Born in East Ayrhire, Scotland. Graduated with a medical degree from the University of Glasgow by the time he was 20 years old. He had trading and real estate business partnerships in South America, Mexico, and California. He accompanied William Miller, the new British Consul-General to Hawaiʻi from Mazatlan, Mexico in 1844 as a secretary. In 1845, he was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Hawaiian Kingdom by King Kamehameha III. He was an excellent record keeper and his work led him to gather together important government documents from the Aliʻi that became the genesis of the Archives of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi and the modern Hawaiʻi State Archives. He will be portrayed by Hamilton Clement.
George R. Carter (1866-1933) – was born in Honolulu. He was the grandson of missionary doctor Gerrit P. Judd. He attended Fort Street School in Honolulu and Phillips Academy in Massachusetts. He returned to Hawaiʻi in 1895 and worked as a clerk for C. Brewer and Company. He was appointed Territorial Governor by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1903, replacing Sanford B. Dole. Carter was an avid collector of Hawaiiana and amassed a collection that became world-renowned. He donated most of his extensive personal library to the Hawaiian Mission Children’s Society and was the genesis for the Hawaiian Mission Houses Archives. He will be portrayed by Ron Heller.
Edna Allyn (1861-1927) – Born in Wellington, Ohio. She graduated from Hiram College in Hiram, Ohio, in 1882 and became a public school teacher. She later earned her master’s degrees in Latin from Columbia University and a degree in Library Science from Case Western Reserve University. After finishing her education, she took a job at the Cleveland Public Library. In 1907 she became the Head Librarian for the Hawaii Library and Reading Room Association. She convinced the territorial government that there should be a free public library. In 1921, she persuaded the territorial government to set up county library systems. This was the beginning of the Hawaii State Library System today, the only state library system that encompasses an entire state. The children’s reading room at the main library branch is named for her. She will be portrayed by Eden Lee Murray.
Charles Reed Bishop (1822-1915) – Born in Glen Falls, New York, Bishop sailed to Hawaiʻi in 1846 along with a lawyer-friend, William Little Lee. They intended to sail for the Oregon Territory in 1846, but stopped and stayed in Hawaiʻi instead. He courted Princess Bernice Pauahi throughout 1849 and they were married in 1850 in the parlor of the Chief’s Children’s School. He went on to found Bishop’s Bank in 1858, now First Hawaiian Bank. After the death of Princess Pauahi, he was an administrator for her trust, Bishop Estate, and helped to found Kamehameha Schools and the Bishop Museum. Bishop Museum, today, is the premier museum about and for Hawaiʻi. He will be portrayed by Christopher Denton.
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